The New Spirit

rselves what it is like. Instinctively we must spend a great part of our lives in searching and probi

rt in this searching and probing, may perhaps be allowed to present some of the results, not claiming to be an expert, not desiring to impose on others any private scheme of the universe. The pulse of life runs strong a

m of literary personalities. I have se[xviii]lected five such typical individuals; it is the inti

r daily life. He poses well in public; he has said those brave words on the platform; he has written those rows of eloquent books—but what (one asks oneself) is all that to me? I want to get at the motive forces at work in the man; to know what his intimate companions thought of him; how he

impressions of the world of to-day, as revealed in certain significant personali

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